Commonwealth v. Cuevas

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that episodes of wild behavior and observations by lay witnesses of schizophrenic conduct following a killing have “absolutely no bearing on whether at the time of the killing, a defendant had the mental capacity to form the specific intent to kill”
• upholding denial of involuntary intoxication instruction, finding intoxication did not deprive defendant of understanding the importance of hiding his crime and himself
• trial judge has duty to instruct jury only on evidence established at trial
• trial judge has duty to instruct jury only on evidence established at trial
• finding witness testified victim was alive after attack

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).